For my money nobody ever touched Bach, though Vivaldi came close. I was never really into Beethoven or Mozart—too many notes (Ba-dum TISS!)
Not surprisingly, the movie Dude, Where's My Car came out in 2000. Though it looks like the spike began just before that. Wonder what caused the early part of the spike?
@Also I'm not sure if you saw my Bro-post, just above your last? It could be what you're looking for.
Bro might be a possibility. I don't remember it from then, but I've forgotten a lot. It sounds just about reasonable for the guy, who is a lot like an older (and earlier) Bright Abbott from Everwood.
Just shouting at the echo ATP. IMO "Dude" is just a bit older in Western US culture, with meanings like "city-slicker", "dandy-man", "pretender", "guest from out of town", "outsider", lawyer, "over-dresser", "fake hat", "green-hand", "someone who is not where they belong", and "dick". Check the use of "dude" in 30s-40s westerns against its use in 60s-70s westerns. "dude" has faded and come back many times in whorls of location, meaning, and history across 'Merika.
Yep, that is why the character, Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski is such a good moniker. He is "the dude" for his time.
Depends what country you’re referring to. Here in the UK “Dude” has never really been a form of address, except when done in a bad, mocking American accent. Mid 70s - early 80s, in the UK at least, there was Pal, Mate, Mucka, Fella, Chief... in fact I don’t think much has changed between then and now in terms of how you address someone. ETA: I dunno, maybe the hippies did adopt “Dude” over here, back in the 70s, but I don’t remember much about that decade.
Then there is Shostakovich. Coitus interruptus and go to sleepus. My twelve year old grandson consistently refers to his friends as "bro," so I suppose that is the next man/dude. The kids predict the future.
Just to drop this in: I'm currently editing a horror novel by an Aussie writer centred around a metal band. There's plenty of 'man', 'dude', 'bro', etc, and of course this is representative of how the characters would be in real life. However, everything in moderation! I'm slapping his wrist for overuse at times. I always recommend using the find function in Word to highlight and thinning things like this out a bit! And while I'm here, the kids here in Australia use 'bro', but as it has a kind of indigenous tilt to it, the accent makes it more into a 'braa'. Similar to a Kiwi accent, I suppose. It's grating, but that's just because I'm old and they use it like punctuation.
When I was in Australia some thirty years ago, "mate" was used almost constantly. Is that still the case? I remember being at the airport in Sydney, waiting on line at a coffee shop, when a man cut in line in front of me. "Sorry, mate, but my plane leaves in five minutes." I'd only been in Australia for a week, but I already knew the proper response: "No worries."
Yup, that's how it is. Mate. Or if you're really country: Maaaaaate. And interchangeably: No worries. No dramas. Too easy. Can I get a coffee? Yeah, mate. Too easy.
